LoneLady - Early The Haste Comes

What this video is

LoneLady (Julie Campbell) is a Manchester-based multi-instrumentalist whose early work emerged from the city's post-industrial DIY underground. 'Early The Haste Comes' was released in October 2007 as one of the inaugural entries in Too Pure's Singles Club, in a limited pressing of 500 copies, before being re-recorded and included on her Warp debut Nerve Up (February 2010). The song sits within a lineage of angular…

Why it matters

Represents a key document of the mid-2000s UK art-punk/post-punk DIY revival, bridging the original Manchester post-punk lineage (Wire, Gang of Four, A Certain Ratio) with a new generation of self-producing female instrumentalists. The video's unbroken single-take format and lo-fi visual language…